The excessive costs that result from overregulatory activities we can dent and maybe save the taxpayers a lot of money.

What can we do to protect the American people without costing an arm and a leg so that they do not have jobs?

I do not want the Government having that information. It is not the Government's information.

I assure you, as a recovering lawyer myself, there is no context in civil discovery or otherwise in which one may define 'relevance' broadly enough to take in information regarding each and every single American who owns a telephone.

Yet regardless of how difficult it might be to define in the abstract what relevance is, don't you think we have left the station of relevance long before we get to the point of collecting metadata on potentially 300 million Americans?

We were unable to speak about this publicly because we have secret procedures being undertaken pursuant to secret law.

I do think it is worth discussing publicly, and I think it is also something that we need to consider from a constitutional standpoint.

I think at some point when you collect that much data on that many people--whether it is that much data on one person, that might create some problem.

As I understand it, the NSA's collection of metadata... is accomplished pursuant to Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.

Everyone who is participating in or watching this hearing can agree that cooperative industry standards are good for consumers, producers, and for the economy as a whole.

Okay. Thank you.

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Okay. Will the increasing consensus within the federal courts... reduce the prevalence of patent hold-up situations?

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But once that commitment is made, you have got to stick with it.

In the small town of Alpine, Utah, where I live, we speak of little else.

There has to be some ability to say, no, you cannot just say, I am unwilling to license on any terms, let alone fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms.